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If I were more entrepreneurial, I'd start a stock photography
online store dedicated to open licensed photos. But I'm not.
Has anyone else done this?
online store dedicated to open licensed photos. But I'm not.
Has anyone else done this?
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Re: cc stock photography
Mon, December 29, 2003 - 11:14 PMThe only ones i've seen even close are these, and IMHO they are poorly suited to the task of finding stock imagery:
openphoto.net/
web2.unt.edu/weblibrary/...ry/index.php
Note both of these are linked to as CC content portals.
But you touched a nerve with this question. I have already taken it upon myself (and looking for more help) to do this among other CC related hosting projects. Very very early planning stages, essentially a domain, sourceforge project, and have some initial ideas/goals outlined.
openmedias.sourceforge.net/overview.html
openmedias.sourceforge.net
The future home of the public web presence will be
www.openmedias.org
Feel free to contact me:
info_at_openmedias.org
or join the discussion lists here:
sourceforge.net/mail/
heck, why not... i'll create a tribe too
openmedias.tribe.net
And if you find anyone already doing this in a satisfactory way let me know so i can adjust the goals of the project accordingly.
Cheers,
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Re: cc stock photography
Tue, December 30, 2003 - 12:51 PMThe problem with both of those is that the licensing is site wide, not per image. Neither seems to be a clearing house for small time photographers to release their images to a wider base, either. Both are things I was thinking would be needed. -
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Re: cc stock photography
Tue, December 30, 2003 - 8:08 PMYes. Those seem to be more along the lines of a "collection" released under one license umbrella. but CC has so many license options, and there are others that are applicable but not CC.
Personally part of my motivation was the desire to add truely useful features such as median/average/highlight color value indexing, more detail about resolutions avail etc. Stuff people who use stock photography in the print world REALLy care about.
But alas it's only the tip of the content iceberg.
Let the brainstorming commence!
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Re: cc stock photography
Tue, June 1, 2004 - 6:48 AMmy site, www.mobloguk.com , although a moblogging site, caters to a wide range of photographers. Many are semi/professional photgraphers who like to use it as a sort of repository. Most of our users adopt a CC license, which we offer on sign up, and so much of the site is open for licensing.
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Re: cc stock photography
Tue, November 23, 2004 - 6:35 PMWikipedia now has a sister project, Wikimedia Commons.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Public domain and free CC (but not non commercial) licensed media: movies, photos, sound files, texts are all allowed. Emphasis seems to be on images and sound files now, but it is fairly new.
Image copyright status tags with allowed/not-allowed status:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Co...ght_tags
Wikisource seems to be the main place for text files.
wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Re: cc stock photography
Sat, February 26, 2005 - 8:39 PMThe Public Library of Science (PLoS) publishes biomedical magazines, and all the content is under a non-restrictive CC attribution license--including the art. Photos, science illustrations, and fine art. The search feature isn't very strong yet, but there are hundreds and hundreds of images available there. Go to www.plos.org and click through to the journals.
